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... and beautiful. They are occupied by a motley collection of local businesses (pet food store, gym,children's clothing outlet, veterinarian), clearly much different from their heyday. Ware was followed by picturesque villages like West Brookfield, with a town green surrounded by white houses and a church.

As we meandered south into Connecticut, the landscape started to change, gentling a bit as we went along. Fewer conifers, towns closer together. I ...

... history. We had excellent orchestra seats for the 2:30 matinée. It was a very enjoyable and energetic show. The rain had stopped, when we emerged from the Ambassador theatre at 5:00 p.m. After the show we took the subway to lower Manhattan to search for 55 Wall Street. Jens' father, Poul, spent three years (1928-31) in the U.S. working for the National City Bank at that address. As a 24-year old, he ...

... but had to go back because one of them had started taking in water. They had not even set off from Plymouth to start with but because of all the false starts had got dwindled down to one ship and eventually had made their way to Plymouth and with extra passengers set off from Plymouth. They had intended to head to the Hudson river but because of weather couldn't make it and also were more than a month late had to camp ...

... order to get a look in), and in the case of Orient Point, one was a fisherman by the name of Elliot Alvah Brooks who made a series of Poquatuck Indian stone carvings along the shore of Long Island Sound some time in 1930s. He dedicated his work to the “memory of the vanquished Poquatucks.” While the Smithsonian Institute has catalogued his work, local council and the people who currently live in Orient Point keep the actual location of Brooks carvings a secret. They ...

... Luckily we decided to wait it out and after speaking to the doorman again about 15mins later after several couples and groups of girls had arrived and been allowed straight in, we were allowed in. Once inside we saw some people arriving sneakily on paddleboats, if only we had thought of that! Anyway thank goodness we got in as it was awesome. A live band was playing on the deck, people were sat around fire pits on the beach and the sky was ablaze ...